HomeLatest News

Latest News

Napster Fallout

Apparently, 50 million people on the Internet can be wrong.Napster fought the law, but the law won — big time. The federal appeals court...

HPs Software Play

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week laid out a company-wide software consolidation plan and a new strategy based on platform independence.The company, known as a collection...

Tool Vendors Gear Up for Oracle Platform

As Oracle Corp. offers its vision of software as a service at its AppsWorld conference in New Orleans this week, a trio of other...

Napsters Hard Times

Jordan ritter, co-founder of Napster Inc., the popular music file sharing company, is at another startup venture, this time in the financial software services...

Helping Systems Communicate Can Only Help You

In todays high-pressure business environment, companies want to get new products and services to market quickly. A systems integrator—a specialist—is often called to install...

Shock Therapy

Its a matter of when, not if. Sooner or later, one of your customers is going to face a disaster—not a botched project or...

Out of Gas?

Californias electricity shortage has wreaked havoc, but a looming natural gas shortage may be even more calamitous.If current rates of withdrawal continue, Pacific Gas...

David Lord Surfaces

David Lord, former chief executive and founder of Toysmart.com, is now chief executive and founder of Expound, a Bedford, Mass., company that provides solutions...

Putting More Smarts in Web Services

This month, Sun Microsystems Inc., in introducing Sun ONE, became the latest company to outline a Web services strategy, joining others such as Microsoft...

Everything Old Is New Again

In computings mainstream, middleware, along with client/server computing, has always been fundamentally about small boxes working vertically with bigger boxes, or servers. Historically, there...